Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

- Augsburger, David

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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Augsburger, David

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.